Hou Xiangxiang didn't dare to speak much. Long'er hadn't read any books these past two days, let alone medical books. She hadn't finished the homework Zhao Kai had given her, and she didn't know when school would start. She had been playing around like crazy all this time.
"Little girl from the Hou family, look what this is?"
The little girl glanced at the picture and blurted out...
"Coptis chinensis".
What about this one?
Rhodiola rosea.
What about this one?
"Pinellia ternata".
Tsk, this little girl has some talent. She sews quite well, but the important thing is that she hangs out with Huo Xiaolong every day.
"Xiangxiang."
Dr. Gu was almost driven to madness when he saw Huo Xiaolong; he was rarely so kind in his speech. The little girl looked at Grandpa Gu, wondering what he was up to.
"Um?"
"Would you like to learn medicine from Grandpa Gu?"
Hou Xiangxiang thought about Huo Xiaolong, who went to school every morning and practiced martial arts at home every afternoon, and blurted out a sentence.
"In no mood!"
"...?"
"You have no choice but to think about it!" Lady Hou came out from the back door to her daughter's side, bowed to Doctor Gu, and said.
"It is my good fortune that my Xiangxiang has caught your eye. Tomorrow I will definitely take her to pay her respects and offer you tea."
She had long heard that Doctor Gu's medical skills were at a level that even the Imperial Medical Academy could not match.
Doctor Gu stroked his beard with satisfaction, nodded, and strode out of the brothel.
"Oh? Mother, I don't want to learn."
The little girl had a light sheen of sweat on her forehead from all the fuss, and the Lady Hou took out a handkerchief from her bosom and wiped it off as she spoke.
"If you don't want to learn how to play with your girlfriends in the future, look, Long'er knows martial arts, right?"
"right!"
"Da Ni'er knows a little too, right?"
"right!"
"If you can't do anything, what are you going to do with those two? They're in danger and they're protecting you, and then you're just crying in the back?"
The little girl frowned and shook her head.
"No, I don't want to do that."
"Do you want to learn martial arts?"
The little girl continued to shake her head.
"No, it looks like it hurts."
"Yes, then you should study medicine so that you can treat them when they get injured, and that way the three of you can be together forever."
The eight-year-old girl still doesn't understand the connection between the two, but she nods like a chick pecking at rice as her mother keeps nagging her.
Lady Hou now only hopes that her daughter can have a skill; she doesn't even care about marriage, as long as she can live on her own...
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